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John Mortimer

Writer, Actor, Producer, Additional Credits
Born April 21, 1923Died January 16, 2009 (85 years)
Sir John Clifford Mortimer CBE QC FRSL was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author.

Mortimer was a prolific writer for the theatre, films (starting during World War II, when he wrote scripts for the Crown Film Unit), television and radio. He also wrote fiction and was a trial attorney for more than 30 years.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Brideshead Revisited
  • In Love and War
Known For
  • The Innocents
  • Tea with Mussolini
  • Bunny Lake Is Missing
  • Brideshead Revisited
  • John and Mary
  • The Running Man
  • Rumpole of the Bailey
  • Don Quixote
  • Summer's Lease
  • Guns of Darkness
  • Lunch Hour
  • In Love and War
  • Paradise Postponed
  • Ferry to Hong Kong

Filmography

1999
Tea with Mussolini · as Screenplay
1998
1993
1991
Titmuss Regained (TV Series) · as Novel
1989
Summer's Lease (TV Series) · as Novel
1987
1986
Paradise Postponed (TV Series) · as Novel
1984
1984
1978
Will Shakespeare (TV Series)
1969
John and Mary · as Screenplay
1969
1968
1967
ITV Playhouse (TV Series)
1965
Bunny Lake Is Missing · as Screenplay
1965
1964
The Wednesday Play (TV Series)
1963
The Running Man · as Screenplay
1962
Guns of Darkness · as Screenplay
1960
1956
Armchair Theatre (TV Series)
1955

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